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Diagnosed with HIV in 1989 and developing AIDS two years ago, Ken Ward was the first Aboriginal in Canada with the disease to go public. Now, with the disease advancing, Ward is throwing all his effort into what he fears is his last chance to get Aboriginal people to listen and take warning of this deadly disease.
"We have a disease here in Indian Country and it has to be…
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Terrying About
Tansi!
Whoo-ee boy! It has sure been one busy time lately. I've just been gettin' "conferenced out." There's all kinds of things happening. On the flip side though, it has all been good, upbeat stuff. You know, that positive stuff.
In the deep south, Brocket is praying that the rains stop and the river waters recede as the good people there are…
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The Calgary Aboriginal Awareness Society will be celebrating 10 years of hosting Native Awareness Week from June 15 to 21 with art exhibits, plays and other events at various venues throughout the city. The society began its first awareness week with the hopes of bridging cultural and social gaps between the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities in Calgary and the program…
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It's about 6 p.m. on a downtown street in Edmonton. On one side of the road is the swanky Westin Hotel. The other side features Rice Howard Way, with trendy nightspots, restaurants and outdoor patios.
#People walk on the sidewalks, stand outside the hotel or sip beers on a patio while watching a young Native woman stagger into the light traffic on the normally busy roadway…
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Jane Woodward, MP Ethel Blondin-Andrew, Premier Ralph Klein, Colleen Klein and Muriel Stanley-Venne stand behind this year's Esquao Award recipients.
The third annual Esquao Awards banquet was held on May 16. The special event, hosted by the Institute for the Advancement of Aboriginal Women, pays tribute to women who have, and continue to, make a difference in Aboriginal…
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The province is investigating a Calgary Aboriginal assistance group's claims that their funding has been unjustly cut.
Since Jan. of this year, the Society for Calgary Aboriginal Community Services has been operating the Aboriginal Family Resource Center out of the Calgary Indian Friendship Center. The centre was designed by the society to assist Aboriginal people in…
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There could soon be more windmills dotting the skyline in southern Alberta thanks to a joint venture between the Peigan Nation and a First Nation in Ontario.
The Peigan Nation, located west of Lethbridge, has become the latest group to embrace green energy by agreeing to a partnership with Advanced Thermodynamics, a company from the Batchewana Band, in Sault Ste. Marie,…
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Terrying About
Tansi!
? It's nice that we've been gaving some great weather lately, but now the darn forest fires have picked up. Last weekend I saw about 100 of our Aboriginal brothers and sisters bussed off to fire lines near Niton Junction and Lesser Slave Lake. Right in the thick of it all, contacting and hiring workers was Teri House (again). The gal was some…
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From thousands of years ago to a few hundred, one animal has shaped the environment for North America's Indigenous people. The importance of the animal and the affect it had are seen and described in one of the first displays seen inside the Syncrude Galleries of Aboriginal Culture at the Provincial Museum of Alberta.
It's Summer on the Plains, 9000 years ago. There is no…
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There's something new in the air in southern Alberta. Transmitting from a field somewhere near Fort McLeod, CFWE Radio The Native Perspective is your newest radio station. You can find it at 89.9 FM.
CFWE has been broadcasting to 44 communities and 45,000 people across central and northern Alberta, but now, with a new, high powered transmitter in the south, listeners in…
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The 7th annual Dreamspeakers Festival, running from May 29 to June 3, is going to be very hard to miss this year. Events associated with the showcase of Aboriginal performing and traditional arts, crafts and culture are scheduled to take place across Edmonton, from Hawrelak Park to the Citadel Theatre and the Eaton Centre downtown.
The performing arts show at Hawrelak Park…
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Parents, grandparents, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, friends, teachers and the occasional hockey player or Spice Girl were the inspiration for young public speakers at the Treaty Six First Annual Speech Competition, held in the confines of the Provincial Museum auditorium on Wednesday, April 29.
Students from grades one to nine and from nine different schools in the…
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The family of a Samson Cree Nation woman and her son who were killed by a police shotgun blast on the Tsuu T'ina reserve near Calgary, say they are being treated poorly in what they believe is fast becoming a political minefield.
Since Connie Jacobs and her son Ty were shot and killed after a confrontation with the Okotoks RCMP at a home on the Tsuu T'ina Reserve on March 22…
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Scrutiny of a trial taking place over 100 years ago could bring Metis people across the prairies some long overdue justice.
The present-day family of Louis Riel is pressing for a bill which would exonerate the former Metis leader, and label the man as a Father of Confederation.
Leo Teillet, a great grandson of Riel, is one of seven family members to publicly issue…
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Natives in uniform
A new exhibit will open on April 30 at the Calgary Museum of the Regiments and will chronicle the contribution of Aboriginal people in the Canadian forces from colonial times to the Korean War. Paintings, photographs and other memorabilia will be on display at the exhibit which is called Aboriginals in the Service of the Peace.
Bovar agreement…